I'm on the road and my laptop is acting up. The hotel I'm at gave me a cisco 350 workgroup bridge - it's a 2.4Ghz wireless bridge with ethernet output. I've booted into windows to test and everything works fine. Under Debian however, things are odd. Web sites work well after connecting which takes ~ 90 seconds per domain. I thought DNS issue, but I tried to do a ping and here is some output: $ ping google.com PING google.com (216.239.57.99) 56(84) bytes of data. 64 bytes from 216.239.57.99: icmp_seq=1 ttl=240 time=105 ms 64 bytes from 216.239.57.99: icmp_seq=2 ttl=240 time=89.0 ms 64 bytes from 216.239.57.99: icmp_seq=3 ttl=240 time=89.1 ms 64 bytes from 216.239.57.99: icmp_seq=4 ttl=240 time=90.1 ms 64 bytes from 216.239.57.99: icmp_seq=5 ttl=240 time=88.9 ms 64 bytes from 216.239.57.99: icmp_seq=6 ttl=240 time=89.5 ms 64 bytes from 216.239.57.99: icmp_seq=7 ttl=240 time=88.9 ms --- google.com ping statistics --- 7 packets transmitted, 7 received, 0% packet loss, time 26598ms rtt min/avg/max/mdev = 88.929/91.641/105.640/5.735 ms I don't get it. The pings are just real slow. They come back fast, but the machine won't sent them as fast as it should. Any ideas? -Alex

Are you using the wireless connection or are you plugged in with a cable?